Meyer Shapiro

Meyer Shapiro (1908-17 September 1931) was one of the Shapiro Brothers, a family of Jewish-American criminals.

Biography
Meyer Shapiro was born in 1908, the brother of Irving Shapiro and Willie Shapiro. The Jewish Shapiro family lived in the New York City neighborhood of Williamsburg in the Brooklyn borough, and Shapiro and his brothers became involved in the garment industry after the murder of Jacob Orgen in 1927. The Shapiros fought against Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter, and Meyer raped and beat the sister of Abe Reles during the gang war. In 1931, Shapiro was murdered in the basement of a Lower East Side tenement building by Reles and his gang.